HEALING FROM TRAUMA
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Emergence
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Trauma doesn’t discriminate. Regardless of your age, gender, occupation, marital status, religion, or ethnicity, you can be susceptible to trauma’s effects.
Trauma (PTSD) can develop from something you’ve personally experienced or something you’ve witnessed, such as a car accident, physical attack, war, or a natural disaster. When triggered, memories of specific moments can come flooding back (emotional flashbacks) years after the initial event has passed, and it can seem like you’re experiencing the event all over again. Panic attacks are common, as is diffuse anxiety.
Complex trauma can occur due to years of abuse, neglect, and/or hurtful interactions with attachment figures such as parents/caregivers/siblings. Effects can vary, but may include: difficulty trusting others, negative feelings about oneself, struggles with forming close relationships, remaining stuck in the past, difficulty planning for the future, intense anger, anxiety, and depression. And because each person perceives events differently, no two people experience trauma in exactly the same way.
Fortunately, you are not destined to forever suffer the effects of trauma. As a trauma-informed therapist, I can assure you there are strategies to help you process trauma so that you can move forward in your life. These include, but are not limited to: somatic experiencing, hypnotherapy, parts work, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Somatic experiencing is a gentle approach which views trauma as being held in the body. By helping you recognize where and how your trauma is being held, I can then guide you through the process of allowing your body to clear it, so that you can experience nervous system regulation. What that means is you can begin to experience less anxiety, less fear, less anger, less shame, and less depression.
Hypnotherapy utilizes our powerful unconscious mind to bring about change. This often-overlooked part of our mind has the potential to do many wonderful things for you including empowering you, ridding you of unwanted habits, managing pain and anxiety, resolving trauma, and making choices more aligned with who you really are, and want to be. Hypnosis is a gateway to those parts of yourself that hold the wisdom and courage to effectuate meaningful change.
Parts work is about helping you gain clarity into which part, or aspect of you, is driving your life. For example, it might be a young part that is still looking to receive what it didn’t get when little, or a punitive part that never cuts you a break. How you feel about yourself, how you’re interacting with others, and the decisions you are or are not making, can all be examined through the lens of your specific parts.
Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, commonly referred to as CBT, focuses on the ways you’re thinking about your life and the world around you which can be getting in the way of you living your best life possible. The behavioral piece focuses on helping you devise the most effective strategies that will help you to feel better about yourself, your relationships, and the world around you so that you can achieve your goals – whether those be small or large.
Trauma counseling, utilizing these approaches (and others), can help release you from trauma’s often powerful grip and will allow you to transition from a difficult past, into a hopeful future.
Trauma (PTSD) can develop from something you’ve personally experienced or something you’ve witnessed, such as a car accident, physical attack, war, or a natural disaster. When triggered, memories of specific moments can come flooding back (emotional flashbacks) years after the initial event has passed, and it can seem like you’re experiencing the event all over again. Panic attacks are common, as is diffuse anxiety.
Complex trauma can occur due to years of abuse, neglect, and/or hurtful interactions with attachment figures such as parents/caregivers/siblings. Effects can vary, but may include: difficulty trusting others, negative feelings about oneself, struggles with forming close relationships, remaining stuck in the past, difficulty planning for the future, intense anger, anxiety, and depression. And because each person perceives events differently, no two people experience trauma in exactly the same way.
Fortunately, you are not destined to forever suffer the effects of trauma. As a trauma-informed therapist, I can assure you there are strategies to help you process trauma so that you can move forward in your life. These include, but are not limited to: somatic experiencing, hypnotherapy, parts work, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Somatic experiencing is a gentle approach which views trauma as being held in the body. By helping you recognize where and how your trauma is being held, I can then guide you through the process of allowing your body to clear it, so that you can experience nervous system regulation. What that means is you can begin to experience less anxiety, less fear, less anger, less shame, and less depression.
Hypnotherapy utilizes our powerful unconscious mind to bring about change. This often-overlooked part of our mind has the potential to do many wonderful things for you including empowering you, ridding you of unwanted habits, managing pain and anxiety, resolving trauma, and making choices more aligned with who you really are, and want to be. Hypnosis is a gateway to those parts of yourself that hold the wisdom and courage to effectuate meaningful change.
Parts work is about helping you gain clarity into which part, or aspect of you, is driving your life. For example, it might be a young part that is still looking to receive what it didn’t get when little, or a punitive part that never cuts you a break. How you feel about yourself, how you’re interacting with others, and the decisions you are or are not making, can all be examined through the lens of your specific parts.
Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, commonly referred to as CBT, focuses on the ways you’re thinking about your life and the world around you which can be getting in the way of you living your best life possible. The behavioral piece focuses on helping you devise the most effective strategies that will help you to feel better about yourself, your relationships, and the world around you so that you can achieve your goals – whether those be small or large.
Trauma counseling, utilizing these approaches (and others), can help release you from trauma’s often powerful grip and will allow you to transition from a difficult past, into a hopeful future.